CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1 forsake 7 deed / behave 10 audibly / noisily 11 metric unit of surface measure 14 seat of power 16 easing, as of pain, discomfort 18 cupid 19 caviar 21 mine entrance 23 ‘Information Technology’ 24 to put or hide away money, valuables, etc. in a secret or safe place for future use 25 (chem) the element silver 27 commercials 30 streets / saints 32 negative 34 brief space of time 37 fast or at once 39 elevated railway 40 wild, violent public disturbance 41 unskilled or exploited laborer 42 indefinite article 43 setting 46 Francis of _ _ _ _ _ _, the saint who shed everything off to follow the teachings of Jesus 48 native mineral 49 prompt / hint 51 an axe-like tool for trimming and smoothing wood 52 northeast 54 whole and entire 55 blood pressure 56 celebrity 58 thing, object, matter 59 the days of old 61 intense fear 63 imagine / conceive 65 sea eagle 66 metal plate, especially the plate holding the bread in the Holy Eucharist 68 relative 69 jumbled letters to read ‘realize’ DOWN 2 prohibition 3 warns / alarms 4 not yes 5 coercion / the use of force or threats 6 poem 7 dined 8 consecrated oil used in baptism and other sacraments in certain churches 9 jogging gait of a person between a walk and a run 11 Verdi’s Ethiopian enslaved princess 12 rules 13 a newt 15 bone 17 musical note 20 sworn statement 22 the legendary English town where King Arthur had his court and his round table 26 to struggle in great pain 28 sorrow 29 infirm; weak 31 big or fat and coarse-looking 33 jumbled letters to read ‘dates’ 35 a period in history 36 any of the five digits of the human foot 37 veggie in a pod 38 printers’ measures 44 the core / pivot 45 unable to speak 47 jumbled letters to read ‘pirate’ 49 pen 50 not as hard, not as difficult / facile 53 merit / deserve 55 wild hog 56 French title given a female saint 57 railroad 59 poetic for ‘you’ 60 snakelike fish 62 poetic for ‘open’ 64 carrier of genetic code and transmits the hereditary pattern 67 musical note